Hearing files may contain agendas, audiocassette tape recordings of hearings, transcripts, testimony, background reports,
and working files for regular session hearings, interim hearings, and some joint hearings. Audiocassette tapes have been moved
to a cold-storage vault for preservation purposes and separation sheets are in the appropriate files to alert the researcher
to the existence of such tapes.

When complete, hearings files can provide in-depth analysis of issues of concern to the committee and California's human services
issues. Many hearings were on various bills pertaining to the committee. The hearings with specific subjects encompassed
numerous topics including water pollution, invasive species, environmental site assessment standards, and the acquisition
of the Headwaters Forest (Hearing Dates: 01/07/1997 to 01/06/1998).

For a list of hearing dates and topics, see Appendix A at the State Archives.